9to5Mac reported this morning that despite Apple Vision Pro preorders still being set for March shipping, the Apple Store website showed a February 3rd pickup date.
When I checked, I saw a February 3rd in-store pickup and March 3rd ship date. On a second try, there were no pickups available, with estimated shipping between February 20th – 27th.
HP CEO Enrique Lores on live television, addressing a class-action lawsuit against his company for blocking third-party ink:
“We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges.”
Ars Technica, while basically calling bullshit, explains: “HP argued that ink cartridge microcontroller chips, which are used to communicate with the printer, could be an entryway for attacks.”
Maybe stop putting smart DRM chips into cartridges, then? Also, read this.
[Ars Technica]
The Information reports the new GenAI team will focus on developing smaller language models (SLMs) that are similar to LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-4 but use less computing power. Microsoft spent hundreds of millions on chips for one supercomputer to run AI models, so any saving helps.
The GenAI team will be led by Microsoft corporate vice president Misha Bilenko and report to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott.
Correction January 26th, 2024, 10:08AM ET: The Information has updated its earlier report, which said this will be part of the Azure cloud unit. It will in fact report to Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott.
[The Information]
In light of Mark Gurman’s latest report in Bloomberg, I’ve made this Mad Lib about Apple’s long-suffering non-existent car project. Enjoy.
Apple is [verb ending in -ing] its decade-old project to build a car, pivoting to a [adjective] design with the intent to introduce a [adjective] car by [year].
After previously envisioning a truly [adjective] car, Apple now is working on a [noun] with [adjective] features, according to [noun] with knowledge of the project.
The company’s efforts to build a car have been [adjective], cycling through [number] executives and iterations, and likely will [verb] several more times before [verb ending in -ing].
So get ready to sit on those hot takes a little longer. Alessandro Paluzzi, who regularly finds new features by reverse engineering apps, posted a screenshot showing this new “Save draft” option.
